All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. - Alfred North Whitehead

"The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance."